Television and picture transmitting apparatus



July 25, 1933. "G-WIKKENHAUSER' 1,920,119

TELEVISION AND PICTURE TRANSMITTING APPARATUS I Filed Aug. 27 1950 enced by the Patented July 25, 1.933

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GUSTAV W'IKKENHAUSER, 0F 'BERLIN-HALENSEE, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO TELEQR -.AK'lIllJSi-GESELLS(IHAIE'JE, BERLIN-CHABLOTTENBUBG, GERMANY TELEVISION 1) PICTURE TRANSMITTING AZPEABADUS Application filed August 2'7, 1930", Serial No.

' picture transmitting receivers, more particularly in the case of receivers which operate with local frequency producers (tuning fork interrupter-s, valve generators or the like) or are kept in synchronism by the frequency transmitted from the sending apparatus, it is of special importance that the energy required for producing synchronism shall be as small as possible.

' It is not possible to drivelarge driving motors for the picture com osing device directly with the small avai able energy and they can only be controlled indirectly by it.

- For this purpose it has already been proposed to use for driving the picture composing device a large, locally fed electric motor, for instance a continuous current motor, which supplies the actual drivingenergy. The weak synchronous alternating current will then be used only for fine regulation which is eliected either by coupling with the driving shaft a toothed wheel or a toothed drum which rotates between the poles of electromagnets' through which the synchronous alternating current flows, or t e control is effected by relatively complicated electric switching devices which are controlled b an auxiliary synchronous motor and which regulate the speedof revolution of ,the driving motor.

All the above arrangements have the common disadvantage that it is still necessary to provide a relatively great alternating cury the arrangements in uestion or the insufiicient eflect.

he disadvantages referred to are overcome by the invention through the recognition of the fact that the ener require for synchronization can be reduc to a fraction of that required with the known arrangements, throu h the rotary'part influc ronous alternating current being coup ed with the source of power used for drivin posing device y an elastic transmission member.

This arrangement also the effect that y the synchromzation does not take in them, apart from or with the picture com'-' 478,192, and in Germany August 29, 1928.

sudden pulsations, but with smooth transitions, so that oscillating about the synchronous speed of revolution is prevented and a steady picture is obtained in the receiver.

In the accompanying drawing a constructional example of the invention is shown diagrammatically.

In the drawing a is the icture composing device which in the case i lustrated has the form of a Nipkow disc and is driven by a largeelectric motor, for instance a continuous current motor I). Synchronization is effected by a synchronous auxiliary motor 0 having the form of a honic wheel, the rotor of which is coupled y an elastic transmission member d with the shaft h of the picture composing device. The transmission member a6 may be a rubber cord, a helical spring or the ike, or may be made of more rigid material but in the latter case the cord must be capable of slipping easily on the two cord pulleys e and f.

The currents supplying the actual driving energy for the picture composing device are connected up to the terminals m and the synchronous alternating currents to the terminals n.

What I claim is:

A synchronizing apparatus for producing! steady pictures with television and picture transmitting receivers, comprising in combination, a main motor for direct driving of the picture composing device'of the receiver,an auxiliary synchronous motor, an elastic transmission member connecting the two motors efi'ecting the synchronization, said transmission comprising an elastic belt and pulleys therefor secured to said motors respectively; whereby smooth transmission is d attained, preventing oscillation about the synchronous speed.

GUSTAV WIKKENHAUSER. 

